The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-14
LAsoR CHAMPIONS.

Mr.. PowderIy Addresses the Knights OF
Labor Convention on the Attitude of the
Church to the Great Organizat.on-Res.
olutions of Sympathy with the Aoarch-
lists squeIched by a Large Majority.
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn, Oct 10.-Mr Pow
deriy's letter on the attitude of the Cath
Ole church toward the Knights was read in
the Convention yesterday morning. In
1T he gives history of the trouble FROM
the time of the meeting of the American
Archbishop last November Mr.. PoNyderly
says the enemies of organized labor had rep
resented that the principles of the order
tended to leadits membersiG anarchy and
socialism to the destruction of religious
principles. At the close of the Richmond
assembly Mr.. Powderly, accompanied by
John w. Hayes and Tom 0Reilly, visited
Cardinal Gibbons on invitation of that ge1hr
tleman and explained the objects of the
order and that they hoped to purge the or
ganiZation of the atheistic ana anarchlcaI
elements They invited the Cardinal to exam
inc the records of the order aud OF It's lead
ing members to show the falsity OF the re-
ports of its enemies AT the close OF the IN
terview the Cardinal expressed his bel1er
that the objects of the order were praise
worthy, and promised them the aid of the
intimated his proposed journey to Rome.
and asked permission to pledge the order to
the maintenance of lawful and orderly be-
havior. The letter adds:
How this prince of the church fulfilled his
covenant made with US and how he championed
our cause in the eternal city we know full well,
and the expression Of pontiflcal good will for
the order of the Knights of Labor which came
to US last March was due solely to the earnest
and intelligent advocacy of our cause by
| Cardinal Gibbons"
The letter gives Cardinal Gibbons report
to the propaganda in full. in which he
says he finds nothing blameworthy in the
order; no oath or promise of blind
obedience is required, and there is
nothing for the Holy See to condemn
The Cardinal further said that such
condemnation would not be prudent be-
cause of the reality of the wrongs of the
working men, because of the danger to the
"churches in our democratic country" and
because it would "force sons of the church
to rebel against their mother and range
themselves with condemned Socialists
MI. Powderly then says the bearing the
church has been friendly and conciliatory
and lit will be our particular duty to pre-
vent the order from committing any thing
against the civil and ecclesiastical laws
which might be condemned by the church
or State"
Mr. Powderly concludes as follows:
There is no reason to fear that our order as
an association will falsify the good character
given 1t by the American prince Of the church.
| Our organization is entirely free from the
elements of sectarian, religious or irrehgious
discussion, and its fundamentals are OF KIND
to guard it against disturbing influences out
sol,s tod
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 11.-There was
only one session of the Knights of Labor
General Assembly yesterday, and when
that was called to order at 2 o'clock it
was found that the committee for whose
accommodation the long recess was taken
were not ready to report They were granted
| further time, and the convention taking
up miscellaneous business an opportunity
was presented for bringing mp the long
| looked-fOr Anarchy discussions. James Il.
| Quinn, of District Assembly 40, OF New
York, the famous Skicker" and Hope Club
man, presented the following resolution
under suspension of rules:
| "WHEREAs, Considering that the develop
ment of the human mind in the Nineteenth
century has reached point expressed almost
universally against capital punishment or talk
ing OF human life by judicial process as relic
| of barbarism. therefore be it
"Resol0ed, That this convention express sor-
row that the men in Chicago were doomed to
death, and that it use every endeavor to secure
the Communication of the sentence Of death passed
| upon them"
The convention was at once thrown into
the widest excitement, scores of the del
egates trying at the same time to obtain
the floor General Master-W orkman Pow
derby decided the resolution out of order.
Joseph Evans of Pittsburgh, appealed from
the decision The appeal was lostby a vote
of 151 to 81
Before the appeal was taken Mr. Powder
ly called General Worthy Foreman Griftiths,
of Chicago, to the chair, and in a short but
vehement speech called upon the cOnven-
ton to defeat the resolution He said no
true Knight could be an Anarchist He ap-
pealed to the delegates in impassioned
words not to pervert the purposes of the
order by the passage of any such resOlu-
tons. 1t was the hottest speech POwderly
was ever known to make.
Quinn, who offered the resolution, voted
aye on the appeal, in order to move a re-
consideration T. II. Lawry, of Pennsy1-
Vania, also made warm speech, and was
followed by a number of others This was
the principal episode OF rather quiet day
Just after the call to order at 2 o'clock
resolutions on the death of B. s. Heath, the
Chicago editor, who was long associated
with Thomas A. Armstrong, of Pennsyl-
vania were adopted
The fight that it was supposed would be
made against Powderly and the general
officers is said to have been given up.
An expression of opinion on the advis-
ability of the Labor party movement was
obtained from large number of Knights
of Labor yesterday. The result of these in
terviews shows that the general officers and
more conservative element in the order,
as a rule, regard the time as not yet
ripe for Il separate party move
ment, while the rank and file and the
more radical of the officers, like Thomas
Barry, of Michigan, are eager for labor
party, the sooner the better. Mr.. Powderly
is the general choice for President but only
a few have any idea that he would accept
a nomination. The labor vote in the coun-
try one year hence is put all the way from
100000 to 100000 Opinion is about
equally divided as to the effect on the old
parties of a heavy labor vote, the idea per-
haps prevailing that the Democrats would
suffer most by it